Missions Best Hooks in Series Opener

CORPUS CHRISTI (CC Hooks) - Four San Antonio hurlers limited Corpus Christi to seven hits in a 7-2 win at Whataburger Field Sunday night before 5,062.

Kevin Quackenbush earned his 13th save in 14 opportunities
with bases-loaded strikeouts of Jiovanni Mier and George Springer in
the ninth. Ryan Kelly, Jeff Ibarra and Quackenbush teamed for three
shutout frames after Donn Roach handled the first six innings.

Yeison Asencio's first home run - a two-out blast into the Corpus
Christi bullpen off Jake Buchanan - pushed the Missions to an early 1-0
lead.

San Antonio posted two additional runs in the third courtesy of
Asencio's two-out single; Adam Buschini and Rico Noel fueled the
uprising with safeties.

Roach slipped out of a one-out, bases-loaded jam an inning later,
retiring Michael Burgess on a swinging strikeout and getting a fielder's
choice ground ball from Enrique Hernandez.

In the fifth, Corpus Christi converted Drew Muren's lead-off triple
to the right-center field gap into its first score. Mier followed by
lacing a single to left.

San Antonio staged a two-out rally during the sixth. Buchanan fanned
the first two hitters before allowing three straight Missions to reach.
Buschini's two-run single made it 5-1 and ran the two-out RBI total to
five. Reliever Matt Heidenreich's first pitch went wild, enabling Chris
Bisson to cross with run No. 6.

Buchanan (7-1) was charged with 10 hits. He walked one and struck out three.

Erik Castro opened the home sixth by dropping his ninth bomb of 2013
into the visitors' bullpen as Corpus Christi pulled to within 6-2. It
was the last inning of work for Roach (5-6), whose line read five hits,
two walks and five strikeouts. He generated 11 ground ball outs.

Heidenreich's ninth-inning lead-off walk of Buschini turned into the
seventh Missions run. Buschini advanced to third via Noel's single and
home after Cory Spangenberg's sacrifice liner to left.

Asencio and San Antonio catcher Eddy Rodriguez had three hits each.

Bobby Doran (6-1) draws the starting assignment for Corpus Christi
Monday at 7:05 as the series continues. The Missions counter with Jose
De Paula (4-6).